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vol. 1, pt. 1, 1873, p. 10, pi. 10 (East Africa, Japan, Australia, Poly- 

 nesia). — Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 

 vol. 1, 1876, p. 265 (Fair Cape, Queensland). — Klunzinger, Sitz. Ber. 

 Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 80, pt. 1, 1879, p. 335 (Port Denison, Queens- 

 land). — Karoli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1882, p. 150 (Singa- 

 pore). — Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, p. 8 . — Meyer, Anal. 

 Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 9 (Kordo, Mysore). — 

 Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1895, p. 160 (Zanzibar, Singa- 

 pore, Cape York, Samoa, Red Sea, Mauritius, Louisiades, Levuka, Pelew 

 Islands, Ceylon, Seychelles). — Steindachner, Abh. Senckenberg. Naturf. 

 Ges., vol. 25, 1900, p. 414 (Ternate).— Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, 

 Fische, 1913, p. 206 (Saleyer). — Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, 

 1927, p. 469 (Mozambique coast). 



Plectropomus maculatus Jordan and Richardson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 37, 1910, p. 442 (compiled). 



Paracanthistius maculatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. NSerland., vol. 7, 

 1873-76, p. 26 (Singapore, Java, Celebes, Halmahera, Ternate). — 

 Beaufort, Bijd. Dierk., Amsterdam, 1913, p. Ill (Macassar). — Fowler, 

 Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 172 (Fat6, Funafuti, Apiang). 



Acanthistius maculatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N£erland., vol. 7, 

 1873-76, pi. (13) 291, fig. 3. 



Plectropoma punctatum, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., pt. 7, 1824, 

 p. 318, pi. 45, fig. 1. Mauritius. 



Plectropoma pessuliferum Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 

 2, vol. 12, 1904, p. 520, pi. 17, upper fig. Padang, Sumatra. 



Depth Z]/ & to 2>%; head 2% to 3, width 1% to 2]/ 2 . Snout 2% 

 to 33^ in head from snout tip; eye 5J^ to 6, 1% to 2 in snout, 1^ to 

 1}<£ in interorbital; maxillary reaches half way in eye or to hind eye 

 edge, expansion 134 to 13^ in eye, length 2}/% to 2}/§ in head from 

 snout tip; teeth in narrow bands in jaws, with upper outer series 

 little larger; pair of canines in front of each jaw and 2 lateral canines 

 on each mandibular ramus; narrow band of fine teeth on vomer 

 and on each palatine; interorbital 5 to 5}i, level; hind preopercle edge 

 entire, with 3 to 4 antrorse spines on lower edge; opercular spines 3, 

 median little lower. Gill rakers 7 + 13, lanceolate, 13^ in eye; 5 

 above and 8 below rudimentary. 



Scales 103 to 105 in lateral line to caudal base and 18 to 20 more 

 on latter; tubes 83 to 86 in lateral line to caudal base and 6 to 8 

 more on latter; 17 or 18 scales above, 40 to 43 below, 42 to 44 pre- 

 dorsal forward to occiput; 26 to 28 rows across cheek to preopercle 

 angle; body scales without small basal accessory scales; maxillary 

 expansion with patch of small scales in 2 to 6 transverse series; snout, 

 preorbital, and interorbital naked; fins basally with finescales. Scales 

 with 2 to 5 basal radiating striae (small examples with 7 to 12 apical 

 denticles with 4 to 7 transverse series) and circuli fine. 



D. VII, 1, 10, 1 or 1, 11, 1, third spine 334 to 4 in total head length, 

 third ray 23^ to 2%; A. Ill, 1, 7, 1, third spine 4% to 5, first ray 2 

 to 23^; caudal 1H to 13^, concave behind; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2% to 2%; pectoral 1% to 2; ventral \% to 1%. 



